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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Losing People

We love the Naval Aviation Museum and watching the Blue Angels practice.

They used to practice very early in the morning, as in, 8:30am early. Now it's at 11:30am, but you better get there by about 10am or you won't get a parking space.

We went yesterday in 3 separate vehicles and Bigger Girl, even after all these years, had to ask for directions.

Go to the Wal-Mart and take a right, i told her. With her, you have to keep it very simple. As she says, "Mom, I could get lost in a Kleenex box!"

While we were there, i got a call from Bigger Girl, too. Yes, it's a huge museum, you lose children and even the adults you came with in there. She had lost Junior.

When i told her not to worry, he couldn't leave the base except in her car she said, "Mom, I know that, but how in the world do you lose a 6'1", 300-pound Cuban with a Mohawk?"

That i cannot answer, except to say that she can probably also lose anything in the aforementioned Kleenex box as well.

As i tried to rest during the afternoon after we got back, Little Girl called me with a problem. She hadn't planned and packed properly for a "women's issue."

Into the car and drive a mile-and-a-half or so up the road to the mini-mart. Back with what i thought she wanted. Nope. Back to the car, back to the mini-mart, and to the condo again. Finally, now she will feel comfortable enough to go swim.

The evening was spent going to the arcade up the road. You know the kind, with go-karts and mini-golf and the games where you spend a ton of money to get tickets that you can trade for a ten-cent trinket. We had a blast, with Bryn and Bryn's Friend choosing as their prizes fake glue-on mustaches. With their trench coats and hats and mustaches we were all in hysterics.

And yes, somehow, we lost Junior again. How a guy that big disappears is beyond me. That must be one of his talents, along with cooking (he made a fabulous vegetable teriyaki for dinner) and playing air hockey. Don't challenge him, you won't win.

Today is

Audacity to Hope Day -- to encourage all to have the audacity to keep hope

Curwood Festival -- Owosso, MI, US (over 40 events commemorate the life and work of James Oliver Curwood, the Owosso-born author and conservationist; through Sunday)

Emancipation Day -- Tonga (trad.)

Fardagar -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (time when farm workers moved from one farm to another, the time to settle debts, and until the 20th-Century, the day to start the fiscal year; always the Thursday through Sunday of the 7th week of summer)

"Born in the USA"(Album release), 1984Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan(Film), 1982"Cavalcade of Stars"(TV), 1949

Today in History:

Chinese astronomers make the first recording of a solar eclipse, BC781Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), 1584Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, 1615New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians, 1760A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history, 1769The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon), 1783Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1792The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title, 1878Henry Ford test drives his first prototype automobile, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage, 1912A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain, 1973The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, 1989Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989Falcon 9 Flight 1 was the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,2010

At 44, I still forget about those "Womanly" moments sometimes too. I had to pack myself a little cosmetic bag of emergency supplies to keep in my purse. the problem is -- I keep giving them away to others who also forgot!! ha